2003 Vouge car phone problems!

I have the standerd car phone in the new shape vouge so it comes through the in dash screen and everything. I cant seem to get my orange sim card to work when you go into settings on the actual handset that is under the centre arm rest i cant find orange i can find vodafone and alod others ive never heard off???????

Any one had this problem before? I would like to use the in car even tho its not bluetooth because i cant stand the ear piece!

If any one has had a problem with this as well and can shead some light on the situation that would be great!


thanks!

hi i have the same phone ,when i put my o2 sim card in there is no o2 in the menu so did an auto network search and it works but the phone displays BT Cellnet, but never use it as it voice dials or from the tv monitor

Ah rite ok. So you put the sim card in the pull out card slot and how do you get the auto network setting is that on the actuall mobile phone in the car? Yes that is what i want it for aswell i dont want to use the actuall handset i just want to be able to use it through the screen like you said

thanks for the reply i was a bit lost!

Yes that s the one , just scroll thru the menu's on the handset till you find the network section and it should say auto or manual .choose auto and all should be ok, as the car phones are not network locked from the factory

Old thread but thought I'd tag onto it for convenience...

Just trying to use the installed 'phone in my '03MY L322 -- Service provider VirginMedia. Finally got the SIM to be recognised with the passcode shown as accepted by the head unit. But continually getting the message "No Network". Have looked through the network providers list and neither Virgin nor O2 are shown -- so tried to amend an entry and just get the message "not possible", Then tried to switch off the auto assign (of service providers) and although the AMEND icon is there, when I try to do that, still get "not possible". There's two service providers, from previous owner who's SIM card was left in the cradle but presumably without any credit left: Vodaphone and T-Mobile.
There's no way to delete (amend) either of them. There's a list of providers I've never heard of but again, it's not possible to remove any of them.

Was this Land Rover range of fitted 'phones locked to service providers T-Mobile or Vodaphone for the UK market?

I read in the handbook this phrase under help hints for no connection:
Are you trying to use a network that is not
permitted?
Select a different network.

If so, is it possible to get my kit unlocked to accept other than these networks? I've only got an iCarsoft 933. But it does do a lot -- like clears error codes and displays for instance aircon coolant pressure

Think you are on a hiding to nothing with this, dont think the system the car uses is still in use or something like that, mines an 04 and has had a nokia bluetooth kit fitted but the phone is still there, might be some info on this over on rangrover.net or fullfatrr forums.

Thanks for the reply. Luckily there's a very knowledgeable chap in Carphone Wharehouse in Crayford. Previous keeper's old SIM was in the Landrover card SIM holder so will pop in and see what network it was on. If either Voodophone or T-Mobile and they still do PAYT will get a SIM and see. It'd just save me the Bluetooth kit plus pain of fitting to keep the dash OEM.

Speaking of Nokia, before was a VW supporter (dumped them after they were shown to be ripping off their own customers over emissions). Their later Blaupunkt-made kit was Bluetooth ready. But it would only interface with Nokia 'phones. It took a european court ruling (against free trade) to stop VAG group from doing that across their entire EU range: Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, Bugatti

<later> It's BT-CELLNET or VODAFONE
Nothing much apart from four user-defined options shown on my iCarsoft i933 which don't include
allow to change network, or allow to switch off auto-assign, or even add a network. Yet according to handbook, those options should be available. Handbooks are downloaded ones so for the north American market -- they would'nt allow all this faffing about over there...
reverting

You were lucky to find someone in carphone warehouse like that, normally when you ask them some thing a little out the ordinary like will the phone let me know when the wifes in a bad mood what you get is " well sir it says on the box " brother in law was in the store in Lincoln not long ago looking at a phone and asked if he would be able to tether it to his laptop to do something and thats the answer he got, I dont have a clue what it was he was on about but he knows about this kind of thing so he just said thanks I`ll leave it for now. And sorry got the hand book for my car but not the book for the phone.

Yep, that's about the situation today in tech stores -- got much the same thing in Currys/PC World -- in Halfords nowadays it's: "well if its not on the shelf we haven't got it" Did a year in Maplins about 15 years ago behind the counter (ex-techie myself). Then they made sure that all of their stores had at least one techie there. Mind you, that was in the days when Maplins was packed out with customers...

So yesterday, just gave up and bought a PAYT SIM for Voodophone, plug and play and that kit all works now. Will have a go at the voice commands next. Can't remember where I downloaded the 'phone handbook from -- it being freely available it's probably the north American edition. But if you want a copy send me a PM with your email address in it and I'll send you an email back with it in file attach

Miss Maplins for the odd bit, going to stick with the nokia kit picks up my phone straight away when we went out the other day as soon as I started the car I said to my wife not got my phone, how did I know, wrong beep from phone kit.

Bit worrying whether or not this original kit is left on in the car when all's switched off and locked up. What with these reported battery drain issues on the L322. I've been using the car every other day since collection after the steering column lock catastrophe so don't know whether its draining or not.
I sent it a SMS an hour or so after getting home after buying the Vodafone SIM. The worry is that when I went into the 'phone's SMS section two days later there was my SMS together with eight other marketing SMSs from Vodafone. They were all date stamped in the time that the car was locked up. So am hoping that means the time they were sent. Not the time they were received. But didn't get any beep or screen indication come up to say that those messages were there and being downloaded when I next started up. Just the SMS indicator highlighted.